1 Jan 2022 3:45 pm
Nazi Germany prospered massively and its gdp growth far outpaced every other European country. That is just a fact. That is also why the citizens of Austria and sudenteland were overwhelmingly in favor of being annexed by Germany.LibDave » 01 Jan 2022, 4:41 pm » wrote: ↑ It's not surprising socialism appears to work in the beginning. Until it runs out of other people's money.
"Ideological differences based on beliefs about facts, causation, human nature, and the character and distribution of knowledge, are ultimately questions about different perceptions of the real world, leading to hypotheses which can be tested emperically." - Thomas Sowell
Socialism has been tested and its evidence measured. All tested hypotheses show the results have not met the predictions of those intellectuals who touted its virtues.
"Intellectuals have on issues ranging across the spectrum from housing policies to laws governing organ transplants sought to have decision-making discretion taken from those directly involved, who have personal stake, transferred to third parties who have neither, and who pay no price for being wrong."
"Intellectuals give people who have the handicap of poverty the further handicap of a sense of victimhood. Intellectuals tend to see poverty as a great moral problem to which they have the solution. The human race began in poverty. There is no mysterious explanation as to why some people are poor. The question is why have some people gotten prosperous and in particular why have some gotten prosperous to a greater degree than others.... Intellectuals have no interest in what creates wealth and what inhibits the creation of wealth. They are very concerned about the distribution of it, but they act as if wealth just exists SOMEHOW. It is like manna from heaven and it is only a question of how we split it up." -Thomas Sowell
I reject the opinion of your token blacks on this matter lol. Your apparent worship of this guy makes me a little embarrassed for you.